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On March 25, 2020, TEI sent state and local tax organizations and state tax revenue agencies a letter seeking administrative, filing, and payment relief for state and local taxes in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

In October 2018, TEI worked with the Council on State Taxation (COST) and AICPA to request that states issue guidance indicating they will waive late filing (but not late payment) penalties for state corporate tax returns due October 15 but filed by November 15, 2018.

On December 18, 2017, State Tax Notes honored TEI’s role in a joint industry task force working to create a model revenue agent report statute, which State Tax Notes featured as its “Project of the Year.”

On July 10, 2017 and August 22, 2017, TEI Tax Counsel Pilar Mata, along with Fred Nicely of the Council on State Taxation, presented at the Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators and Midwestern States Association of Tax Administrators meetings. The panel discussed the need for states to update state statutes governing the reporting of federal income adjustments.

On August 1, 2017, the MTC’s Uniformity Committee voted to expand the MTC’s Partnership Workgroup’s mandate to address the reporting of all federal audit adjustments and to use the Interested Parties’ draft model statute as a starting point to update the MTC’s model statute.

On June 16, 2017 TEI submitted a letter to Senator Braun and Representative Jinkins of the Washington Legislature urging the legislature to enact Senate Bill 5866, 2nd Substitute, which would establish an independent tribunal to hear appeals of tax assessments and other matters administered by the Washington Department of Revenue.

On June 15, 2017, TEI Tax Counsel Pilar Mata, along with Fred Nicely and Nikki Dobay of the Council on State Taxation, April Nevarez on behalf of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Jaye Calhoun on behalf of the ABA’s State and Local Tax Committee, and Tom Shimkin of the Multistate Tax Commission, presented at the National Conference of State Legislatures Taskforce on State and Local Taxation. The panel discussed the need for state legislators to update state statutes governing the reporting of federal income adjustments.